Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.
From Oscar Wilde
Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.
Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
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